Franceschetto Cybo

Franceschetto Cybo (1450-25 July 1519) was an Italian nobleman and the illegitimate son of Pope Innocent VIII.

Biography
Franceschetto Cybo was born in Naples, Kingdom of Naples, the illegitimate son of Cardinal Giovanni Cybo. He was married to Lorenzo de Medici's daughter Maddalena de Medici for diplomatic reasons, making him the brother-in-law of the future Pope Leo X. Cybo had an excessive passion for card playing, but his father appointed him Governor of Rome in 1488, granted him the fiefs of Cerveteri and Anguillara in 1490, and also made him Count of the Lateran Palace. He unsuccessfully attempted to steal the Vatican treasure in 1490, and he lived in Tuscany and Genoa after his father's death in 1492. After Pope Julius II's election in 1503, he returned to Rome, and he became Duke of Spoleto. He died in 1519 after a trip to Tunis, and he was buried in his father's sepulchre.